1839 in Canada

Events from the year 1839 in Canada.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Victoria

Federal government

 * Parliament of Upper Canada: 13th

Governors

 * Governor of the Canadas: John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham then Charles Poulett Thomson, 1st Baron Sydenham
 * Governor of New Brunswick: John Harvey
 * Governor of Nova Scotia: Colin Campbell
 * Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Henry Prescott
 * Governor of Prince Edward Island: Charles Douglass Smith
 * Governor of Upper Canada: George Arthur then Charles Poulett Thomson

Events

 * February 15 – Chevalier DeLorimier and others who joined in the Rebellion are executed.
 * April 11 – Death of John Galt, novelist, one of the originators of the British American Land Company.
 * June 24 – Last meeting of the Committee of Trade, forerunner of the Board of Trade.
 * September 19 – Opening of the Albion Mines Railway in Nova Scotia, an early Canadian steam-driven mining railway
 * September 26 – Canadian rebels are transported to New South Wales.
 * October 19 – Charles Thomson, Governor of Upper and Lower Canada, arrives. It is determined that Upper and Lower Canada shall share revenue in the ratio of 2 to 3.

Full date unknown

 * Lord Durham's report recommends the establishment of responsible government and the union of Upper and Lower Canada to speed the assimilation of French-speaking Canadians.
 * Territorial disputes between lumbermen from Maine and New Brunswick lead to armed conflict in the Aroostook River valley (the Aroostook War).
 * First Horse Railway in Upper Canada.
 * Mount Allison University founded by Charles Frederick Allison in Sackville, New Brunswick.

Births

 * January 1 – Annie L. Jack, author
 * January 29 – Élie Saint-Hilaire, educator, farmer and politician (died 1888)
 * May 8 – Adolphe-Basile Routhier, judge, author and lyricist (died 1920)
 * May 31 – Louis-Alphonse Boyer, politician (died 1916)
 * October 8 – George Edwin King, jurist, politician and 2nd Premier of New Brunswick (died 1901)
 * September 17 – Antonin Nantel, priest, teacher, school administrator, and author (died 1929)
 * November 16 – Louis-Honoré Fréchette, poet, politician, playwright and short story writer (died 1908)

Full date unknown

 * Augustus F. Goodridge, politician and Premier of Newfoundland (died 1920)
 * James Colebrooke Patterson, politician, Minister and Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (died 1929)

Deaths

 * September 18 – Jeanne-Charlotte Allamand, pioneer, educator and artist (b. 1760 in Switzerland)